Questions tagged [signal-processing]
The subfield of electrical engineering that focusses on analysing, modifying, and synthesizing signals such as sound, images, and scientific measurements.
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Is the strongest acoustic signal always the closest?
I have a single beam echosounder that I use to measure the distance to an object underwater. It emits an acoustic pulse and listens to the reflections. Using the time of flight and the strongest ...
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How do you extrapolate frequency data from FDTD simulation time data?
Context: Im a PhD student who plans on doing research in theoretical plasmonics/nanophotonics, so I am studying up on understanding FDTD. I am having a bit of a conceptual issue regarding ...
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How do computers store sound waves just by sampling the amplitude of a wave and not the frequency?
All of this just doesn’t make sense though.
I mean, doesn’t the amplitude represent the loudness and the frequency the pitch? Aren’t they completely independent from each other?
Is the book just ...
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Avoiding radar detection using active noise control instead of a stealth fuselage
was reading about different stealth technologies used by modern aircrafts to avoid radar detection.
Wouldn't it be easier to have a receiver on the airplane listening on the radar frequencies and then ...
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Doubt on time invariant system
Now I am delaying the output of a system (which takes $x \left( t \right)$ as input and gives $t \cdot x \left( t \right)$ as output) by $T$ then final output is:
Let's denote the output of the ...
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Modeling an Acoustic Reflection from a Wall
I am trying to simulate the reflection of a sound ray, that goes from a sound source, bounces off a wall, and is received by a microphone.
The wall has a an absorption coefficient, and a specular ...
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Energy spectral density vs power spectral density vs power spectral density per unit time
I recently started research to measure the voltage noise spectrum of materials to study their phase transitions. Before understanding physics, I am now confused by the three terms used in literature:
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Determining the location of light receivers using signals propagating in anisotropic media
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I have a set of $16$ light receivers with entirely unknown locations, and a pair of light transmitters with exactly known locations. One light transmitter is stationary, and located near to ...
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What is the physical meaning of the pressure of an acoustic point source being complex?
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From various sources of Acoustics (such as "Acoustics -
An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications" by Allan D. Pierce and "Fundamentals of General Linear ...
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Why don't podcasts played at faster speeds sound higher-pitched?
Many podcast apps allow you to listen to podcasts faster than the speed at which they were recorded (typically at x1.25, x1.5, x1.75, and x2 speeds).
If these apps are simply replacing the sound's ...
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Why does superposing an infinite number of waves of different wavenumbers eliminate periodicity and may sometimes result in a localised wave?
I am studying how wave packets are defined in quantum mechanics, but I am finding it hard to intuitively understand why superposing an infinite number of waves of different wavenumbers $k$ may ...
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The solar spectrum on the time domain
This is the solar spectrum by wavelength:
By formula $c=f\lambda$, we can plot the solar spectrum over the frequency domain:
Then we can conduct inverse Fourier transform to transform the plot into ...
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Can multi-instrumental sound be reconstructed from a waveform?
This question came about when I saw someone wearing clothing with a waveform on it. I wondered if it would be possible to reconstruct the original sound from the printed waveform.
I understand that a ...
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Why do the signals for second harmonic generation and third harmonic generation differ in the strong focusing limit (strongly focused gaussian beam)?
In Ward & New (1969), the expression for second harmonic generation (SHG) and third harmonic generation (THG) intensity is derived for the focal volume of a strongly focused gaussian beam (axially ...
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Recovering Decay Constant from Fourier Transformed Exponential Decay in NMR
I'm currently in a NMR lab for an undergraduate physics class, and I am attempting to determine the decay constant $\tau$ (e.g. $T_2$) associated with a free induction decay signal. However, our ...
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